Germaine Koh, photo by Tayu Hayward.
Join us for an afternoon Visual Arts Open Lecture with Governor General’s Award-winning artist Germaine Koh, who works across disciplines.
Looking at the significance of communal experiences and the connections between people, technology, and natural systems, Koh’s ongoing projects include the Slow Fashion Season events, encouraging sustainability in textiles and clothing; the Home Made Home initiative, exploring alternative forms of housing; the League project, focused on play as a form of creative practice; and a land-based artist residency. Her presentation will focus on the value of hands-on making.
Koh is on faculty for the Summer Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR) program. Open to visual artists working across mediums, BAiR combines the freedom of a self-directed residency with the supportive benefits of an organized program. As well as receiving the space to create, research, and experiment, participants are part of an international community of contemporary artists committed to developing and expanding their practice.
This event is part of the Visual Arts Open Lecture Series, which presents talks by leading Canadian and international artists, curators, and academics.
Visual Arts is supported by Fondation DRG and the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Outstanding Artist Program.
About Germaine Koh
Germaine Koh
Germaine Koh is an artist and organizer whose work ranges widely across media. Her work adapts familiar objects, everyday actions, and common spaces to create situations that look at the significance of communal experiences and the connections between people, technology, and natural systems. Koh's ongoing projects include the Slow Fashion Season, an initiative encouraging sustainability in textiles and clothing; the Home Made Home initiative to build and advocate for alternative forms of housing; and the League project focused on play as a form of creative practice. Koh received a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2023 and was a 2023-24 Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University. She served as the City of Vancouver’s first Engineering Artist in Residence in 2018-20 and the 2021 Koerner Artist in Residence at the University of British Columbia, where she is now an Assistant Professor in Visual Art.
https://germainekoh.com